July 18, 2013
I continued work on the doghouse trim, mostly sanding and varnishing. It's looking good and almost ready to re-mount. I finished the little rot repair and the cardboard patterns for the starboard side liner. Instead of an outrigger race on Saturday I crewed on a neighbor's boat in the annual Milt Ingram Trophy Race. The race is for much more weatherly boats than his Hans Christian, and since there were only two of us, we decided to D.N.F. (along with most of the other boats in our class) after taking six hours to beat to the weather mark only 10 miles into the 42-mile race. Ah well, I got a T-shirt out of the deal. It was "Pirate Days" at the harbor this weekend too, so there was more than the normal amount of lost tourists, excited kids and clueless kayakers. Some nice sunsets were nice compensation.
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That coach trim cetol blows my mind. Not sure I like the injected epox as a solution - something a boat broker would do.
ReplyDelete10 miles in 6 hours...what a race...for frozen snails anyway.
But what a sunset! Or was it morning. Lovely!
The holes and penetrating epoxy were in sound wood above and outside the rotten section. As much as possible of the bad wood was removed and the resulting void filled with epoxy filler. The injection of penetrating epoxy was to prevent any further spread of rot in case some residual bad wood remained in an inaccessible area. A bigger repair would have been required if the panel were structural, but it isn't.
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